Green

Good REM album. Not my favorite but solid.

Klingt nach R.E.M., mehr kann ich da nicht sagen.

Album agréable à écouter !

3.5 I love REM, but there’s something about their music that epitomizes a 3 rating. It’s good music with great and introspective lyrics but sometimes they can sound very 80s-90s jangle/pop rock, though this album was a little more experimental which is cool. Still very solid mainly carried by the first half of the album, in my opinion.

I enjoy poppy REM much more than soft acoustic REM. This album makes me feel great from start to finish and always have. The vibes are good and the songs are strong.

Ok

Fave tracks: Orange Crush Untitled

Kul. Kokr so mi R.E.M. poznani, mi pa ta specifičn album ni. Prvi komad mi je kul, "Pop Song 89". "Stand" mi je bil preveč repetitive, "The Wrong Child" je žalosten, "Orange Crush" mi je pa spet kul. "Turn You Inside-Out" mi je tud všeč. Zdaj, s prvim poslušanjem ever, mi je "Hairshirt" prvi komad, ki dejansko zveni drugače kot ostali. Večinoma mandolina in Stipeov vokal, ostalo minimalno. Ker preostali album je že a blur to me. Mogoč mu moram kdaj dat še eno šanso. Ok, naslednji mi tud izstopa in mi je posledično ljubši k preostali album ("I Remember California"). Mja, bom še kdaj poslušala, tokrat mi je bil samo ok.

This was alright, but sort of went in one ear and out the other for me. I like REM's general sound but there were no particularly catchy or memorable songs on this album

Sounds 20 years older than it does which is interesting. Decent otherwise

Classics like Stand and Orange Crush, but a few fillers too.

Yeah decent

Undeniably a pretty good/decent album, but it's nothing extraordinary and just didn't do much for me.

not much diversity in the tracks, but good writing

Green was a pretty solid album. One thing that confuses me about this album is the fact that Wikipedia lists it as experimental rock and for some experimental rock album, it sure plays it pretty safe and doesn't experiment very much. That being said, I still quite liked this album. There are some really solid songs here with some fun melodies and great guitar work. I also never really found any of the songs to be outright bad so that's also a plus. While i don't think that this album reaches the heights that Document or even Automatic For The People do. I still think it is a pretty good addition to R.E.M.'s library and a good one to end off on too. Best Song: I Remember California Worst Song: Hairshirt Side note: Since this is my last R.E.M. album, here are the rankings: 1. Document 2. Automatic For The People 3. Green 4. Murmur

This is one that seems to linger just outside the REM pantheon. Its highs are quite high (Orange Crush) but the rest is inconsistent. This could still be someone else's best album; that it's mid REM is a testament to REM.

Pains me but I just can’t quite justify a 4

Kinda sounded like disney rock

Like Hüsker Dü but poppier. Liked it.

R.E.M. isn't a strong enough band to warrant two albums on this list. This album isn't as strong as Automatic For The People, but it sounds very similar. I would give it 3.5, rounding down.

bit too pop-y for my taste - I don't really like the singing, tho the guitars are cool and the drums are simple and effective the album seems really cohesive, I wasn't paying attention to the lyrics that much tho overall, its fine.

There’s a lot of mandolin on this album, and it definitely feels like a jumping off point for the band, where they start to sound a little more alt-rock. I don’t like it as much as Document or Murmur, which we’ve already reviewed, though it has its moments. “World Leader Pretend” is gorgeous slice of introspection. 3.5.

I want to like his voice so bad but he reminds me too much of RuPaul :/

More REM! I'm not mad at it, although I am mad that the album called "Green" doesn't have a green album cover. Like with Sinatra, I like the overall sound a lot, but there are no standout tracks on this album. The people* want another 'Nightswimming'! *me

If I'm honest, REM are a singles band for me. There are a couple of great tracks on here but while the rest is fine, I could leave it. I recognise there's some interesting stuff going on, walking an experimental line without being weird or atonal, but it just doesn't grab me that hard.

OK, REM not my favorite, too winy.

Better than I expected, being a self proclaimed REM hater. It was less whiney than a lot of their other stuff, though still just as "intellectual-by-design" which I find a little off putting. The singles, orange crush and stand, are great tracks.

Not a bad album, I’ve listened to it before and was hoping this listen through would change my mind, because I love Losing My Religion and that style. REM are very unique, an acquired taste. This album is something I’d be down for once in a while.

I liked it! Familiar (and more poppy) tunes like “Pop Song ‘89,” “Stand,” and “Orange Crush” mixed with some more introspective songs made for an enjoyable listen.

I pretty much checked out on REM after "Life's Rich Pageant". I no longer have that 'ew they sold out' hipster mentality but their later albums still don't really hit with me the way their early ones do. This is okay I guess. None of the songs really move me though.

Strong writing and interesting concepts. But this still didn’t translate to much for me. It didn’t punch. 3 stars for the writing and the concepts and some of the songs were good. Favorite song: Turn You Inside-Out

wasn't focused, it wasn't bad i think

Michael Stipe's voice is instantly recognisable. Some almost grungy notes (I remember California). Enjoyed.

I have to agree with many others that "Orange Crush" is the main banger here. The rest of the songs didn't leave much of a mark on me and his voice kinda annoys me.

Yes, this is pretty good boss. 3.50/5

Ist mir zu weichgespült.

Des Zufalls Lieblingsband! Hat mir von den drei bisherigen Alben hier am besten gefallen.

Ok c’était mieux ce que je pensais… Initialement, je n’aime pas trop REM, je trouve ça chiant: Mais là j’ai retrouvé des sonorités que j’aime : folk , un peu musique irlandaise par moment, et la voix très Eddie Vedder (le chanteur de Pearl Jam qui est en bande son de Into the wild)

J'ai écouté mais je me rappelle plus 😶

I liked it but wouldn’t go out of my way to listen to it again

love the instrumentation and there's some solid song structures, but it just slides off my brain. i can't imagine i'll ever want to go back and relisten to this.

There are a couple of well known hits on here, but the rest is kind of monotonous to me. I admire that REM didn’t sound like anybody else at the time, but I just don’t love their sound alot of the time.

Favourite track: Stand

This was a bit of a divergence from the original, almost folksy, REM. In a good way.

Much sounds the same. Was okay though.

PSA: If you have a colleague who really wants to stand in the place where she works, but her request for a stand-up desk is denied by management, she may not appreciate links to “Stand” being sent to her via company email.

An chill an pleasant listening of a melodic ROCK album 3/5

Enjoyed this. Just the kind of album that feels like it has always existed. Not great, but I really liked it.

First time listening to this full album. I've probably heard every single R.E.M. has ever put out though, so I knew some songs already. After listening to this album, I have the same opinion of them as I had before. Musically, they write some solid, catchy songs. Its very approachable soft rock. Borderline Americana music. I can listen to R.E.M. on occasion and enjoy it. The problem is the whiny singing with the dorky socially conscious lyrics. These dudes seem insufferable in person. I can only take so much of it. Maybe they should make some instrumental albums.

Not for me and that's okay!

Classic Stipe. Variable pace but all perfectly composed

my kjent men ikke egt. ok

3 stars

As with all the other REM albums, it's really good, but I just want to like it more than I do.

⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1001 ALBUMS- # 98 R.E.M’💰 GREEN turn 💸 Now here is a band that I’m long overdue to deep dive with as their prolific discography brought significant changes along the way. Green, their sixth studio album marked the band’s major-label debut after leaving I.R.S. Records and signaled a period of musical expansion and experimentation. Mixing folk-inspired acoustic songs with harder-edged rock tracks, R.E.M.’s range was growing and yielded standout pop anthems that would find heavy MTV rotation paving the road that would lead the group to superstardom. 🎧 Classic Track: Orange Crush 🎧 Deep Cut Gem: Hairshirt 🎧 Personal Favorite: I Remember California 🎧 Memorable Standout: World Leader Pretend Musically, Green shows R.E.M. stretching their palette. The jangly guitars that defined earlier albums remain, but they’re now joined by mandolins and accordions, crunchy distorted guitars and playful pop energy. Producer Scott Litt, who had also worked on their previous release, gave the album a cleaner, punchier sound that suited its mix of introspection and anthem. 🖼️ Album Artwork: Agent Orange Green is full of dualities — joy and anxiety coexist throughout. Michael Stipe’s lyrics, as usual, balance direct messages with poetic ambiguity, and his vocals are more confident and intelligible than in their early records. Green is both a farewell to R.E.M.’s underground era and a bold step toward the global stage. It’s uneven at moments but excitingly so — you can hear a great band in motion, testing boundaries. The album is also very backloaded with bangers, however a disjointed venture musically overall as the tracks sway back and forth teetering pop and alt-rock that can be challenging to vibe with emotionally throughout. This was an intentional artistic decision for the band to make, purposefully disrupting expectations both to their fans and to themselves for the direction their sound would evolve into upon now being on a major label roster. STAND a sentimental guilty pleasure, exhaustively overplayed, yet slaps every time!

3,5

Enjoyed this WAAYYYYY more than Document. This thing was actually good as opposed to bad which is a massive improvement. Backloaded as fuck though. Orange Crush, Turn You Inside Out, I remember California all great. Too bad theyre towards the end and start is mostly forgettable. 7/10

Lekkere R.E.M. sound.

rings of flowers

It was very chill, it was a jam band album. I think it only took me somewhere with a couple songs, and Orange Crush was one of them.

It's a good record that I wouldn't typically think about listening to other than a song or two. I don't know that I'd call it vital to anything but R.E.M. I would not call this their "best" record, although "Stand" is certainly one of their most known songs. Their career trajectory was defined by this record and the hits generated by it.

Not a massive fan of REM. Aside from "Orange Crush" and maybe a couple others it's midway for me.

Some decent tracks but a bit samey

A couple of good song and the rest I probably need to be 16 to appreciate.

Not great, not terrible.

⭐️⭐️⭐️

Mandolin can be so annoying. There are some good songs here though

Good pre-alternative.

Ehhh. Not bad but just kinda blends together!

A solid album from the late 80s "college rock" circuit, by one of its foundational bands. These guys are classics for a reason - unfortunately, I found this album fairly frontloaded, with the quality dropping off fairly steeply after Orange Crush.

Very frontloaded album that I started enjoying less and less. Right around Orange Crush I felt like it began falling off. This is definitely a much more pop album than I would expect from R.E.M., but they start turning into their old selves at the midway point. I listened to this twice and both times I made it to the end realizing I had zoned out 20 minutes ago.

Highlight is Orange Crush. Lowlight was Hairshirt which has a annoying beeping in the background. 3/5.

the first song is a banger, the rest are OK

Kind of a mixed album, but the iconic songs brought back great memories.

Mid streak continues

Would listen to a few songs again. Important to the evolution of music in their sound.

This feels like a stream of consciousness added with some alternative guitar. It’s cool to hear the influence that brings in 90s rock. Probably won’t listen again

Liked this one much more than I expected to. Realized I just didn't want to hear all the "popular" songs.

It ends being R.E.M. tiring. Fun first listening, though.

Some songs good, but need to give another listen, not sure with 3 or 4 but leaning towards 3.

3.5 for me. Some hits but some MAF Mid Album Filler for a truly great album..

I wish I liked this album more! Today's album was the first time I have ever consciously listened to R.E.M. Not going to lie, I am not the biggest fan of Michael Stipe's voice. It wasn't until my fourth listen that I finally started getting used to it. The music itself was interesting; it was a unique combination of folky elements and a rock sound. The journey of the album felt pretty up and down for me. The beginning of the album was a strong start, but some songs, like "The Wrong Child" and "Hairshirt", really took me out of it.

I've Got My Spine, I've Got My Orange Crush 1001 Albums Generator 137 (10/10/2025) The hits and the upbeat tunes are really good but the more psychedelic and slow songs are not really. Interesting album, but not one that I would come back to much in full. 3/5. Favs: Pop Song 89 Stand Orange Crush Least Fav: Hairshirt

good alt rock... i don't like his singing at all. it's def like the most "not my cup of coffee" stuff i've heard in a long time but again it's a very strong album so yea.

Compared to the other R.E.M albums on the list it just didn’t mesh as well, feeling quite dull. Stand was a nice refreshing song that sounded like their best.

Very solid album with nice production. Unfortunately I think the album doesn't manage to capture me at all. Definitely great background vibe music but the vocal performance comes off very flat to me, especially compared to their other albums.

First side was good but then it blended into the same full sound

Much better then the debut. Still doesn't exactly stand out for me

This would be a 3.5 for me, but I'll round it down because I wouldn't necessarily want to listen to the whole album again. There are some good songs though

Poppy and melancholic. Not one of my favourites of theirs, though still a good record and arguably the start of their mainstream breakthrough?

A like this one a little better than Document, perhaps just more familiar to me. This is fine. I do find it a challenge to really get absorbed in any of their music.

6/10 Favourite: Get Up Least Favourite: Untitled

Sure they were huge and sure I know a bunch of their songs, but this album doesn’t pull at my memories nor at my musicality. Hard, I’ll say it again, to understand what we were all thinking when they were pretty much the biggest band in the world?! 2.5 to 3

Not my favourite R.E.M. album but that doesn’t mean it’s not great. Orange crush is one of my favourite rem songs. Can’t believe they’re less than 4 years away from recording automatic…

Nokkur skemmtileg lög þarna og augljóst af hverju R.E.M. eru svona stórir. Þeir ná mér samt ekki nægilega mikið til að vilja hlusta aftur. Ég læt þá bara útvarpsspilanir duga, eða vídeóspilanir kannski

Not their best. Some great songs, some pretty awful ones. 3.5

Listened to the 2013 remastered version of this album. This is my second album of the 1001. Thus far in life I have tended to dislike music from the 80s. I realized looking into R.E.M. I actually do know and enjoy a number of their top songs, but have never given one of their albums a listen. Listening to Green, I quite enjoyed Pop Song 89 and Stand. What does it say about me that I favor the so called “fruit loop” tracks? Hmm. Orange Crush was also pretty good. Get Up and Turn You Inside-Out have more of that 80s rock sound that I don’t enjoy. I Remember California really has that sound I associate with Nirvana, which made sense when I read Kurt Cobain was a fan of this album. Overall, while I appreciate that they were trying different styles and instrumentals - the mandolin was a nice addition in my opinion, this is probably not an album I’d return to in full. 3/5

World Leader Pretend

Kind of disappointed in this recommendation, honestly. I haven't heard much REM outside of their singles and have always been somewhat interested in doing a deep-dive into them, and even I know this album isn't considered anywhere near their best releases. And after listening to it, it's pretty bland. Maybe I won't like the rest of their albums either but this was pretty ehh.

Classic REM - worth it just for Orange Crush

I've been suffering from a cold recently. It has somewhat ruined my listening experience. "Green" isn't as fantastic as "Automatic for the People". My favourite song from the album is "Turn You Inside Out". It should've been the opening track. 3 stars for "Green".

I liked it, loved untitled. Solid album.

Nearly a week into this and i have realised there are going to be a lot of good albums on here. I think i need to adjust my marking system otherwise I will end up with about 700 5/5 albums. So my revised marking system will be based on: 5 = Top notch, I will come back to this album again and again. 4 = Still really good, fair chance of repeat listening and has the potential to become a 5. 3 = Good album, probably 2 or 3 really good tracks but can’t see myself playing this again. 2 = Made it to the end of the album, didn’t hate it. 1 = Make it stop. Not sure if I can go back and revise my previous scores. Also decided to start a playlist and add 1 song from each album to the playlist. I haven’t decided yet if I will add a song if the album scores less than a 3. I guess we will find out when a low scoring album comes along. Onto this album. It’s close to a 4 but with my tougher marking system it is going to get a 3. Added Get Up to the playlist.

I enjoyed this better than the last album despite the similar rating. Good album

R.E.M normally doesn't do it for me. This was decent though. I enjoyed a few tracks on this album.

Green, with its orange cover art and disc is remembered well. Had it on CD in Haverhill (probably right around ‘88) and it got some play as a regular disc in the 5 CD changer. World Leader Pretend, Orange Crush, I Remember California make for a good threefer. L = (2.7*s) Not bad, but two of their earlier albums (Fables and Document) are better. J = (3.5*s) Might see them again with Out Of Time, but this one is where they peaked. Kinda lost track of them after Green.

Green is not as green as the previous albums by R.E.M. that have made the list thus far. Aside from the 3 top hits (Orange Crush, Stand, And Pop Song 89), the rest is mediocre. Even though "Get Up" is a charted track, I found it weak. Never realized Stipe is a gorilla-man and under his button up he dons a "Hairshirt." Bit surprised to see Cobain put this record in his top 50. I have heard this album many times but I'm not so sure you must before you die. I like it but I think we are gonna have too much Rem-sleep on here...3.13 stars.

More of what I've come to expect and very much enjoy from R.E.M. It's got handful of hits and a couple of solid deep cuts in line with R.E.M.'s other work from this period. My biggest criticism would probably be that there is a little too much mandolin from Peter Buck. I recognize that it became part of their signature over time, but it's better used sparingly to add character than to play a featured part. I have a lot of fondness for Green even though I think it ranks behind the other entries on this list in Document and Automatic. 3.42 stars

It was okay

It's fine, not my favourite REM record, not sure it belongs on this list.

hmm ça va isok mais un peu la flemme de réécouter ça à l'avenir

Interesting album similar to small faces late 60s psychedelic progue rock

Slippery like soap and hard to take a solid grip. This bar of soap is located in the middle of the road

I've never really cared for R.E.M that much. I've a couple LP's on the shelf, Document and Out of Time I think, but they've left largely unplayed. I've realised that I don't care for Mr. Stipes singing style that much. Some of their pop songs are quite nice, but also ofter feel quite preachy, which is another turn off for me. Overall I'm not that bothered by Green, but neither is it grabbing my attention.

en stark trea ändå tror jag. kanske går att bumpas om jag lyssnar lite mer noga

All the songs sound the same. Which isn’t terrible, but to listen to the album in its entirety, lost my interest

Once again, REM surprising me with an album full of songs better than their radio hits. I’ll still take Weird Al’s Spam over Stand, but this was an overall enjoyable early morning listen. 3.5⭐️

Quite an accessible album from R.E.M with a mix of guitar rock and pop alongside the more folk and experimental ideas. Makes it an odd album to listen to thematically but I do like about half the songs and the record is a grower too.

Late 80s rock. A fun listen.

Heard better from R.E.M., not sure it needed to be included, still fine

Sounds like REM. They may have been one of the first to do this sound but they certainly weren’t the best.

Good album that's well produced but I've never been s huge fan of their sound.

I was ready to hate it but there were a few decent songs on it. Not all the annoying most overplayed hits either.

Ok

First song is amazing. Stand is still one of the better ones on the album. Aside from these two it is just ok, nothing too standing out. Good guitar

7,4/10

I first heard this album when it came out in 1988. I've always dug "Orange Crush" and "Stand" (despite it taking a lot shit from everyone, including the band) but none of the other songs really stood out to me. Additional tracks that temporarily piqued my interest this time around were "I Remember California" and "(Untitled)". Stipe's lyrics seem as cryptic and oblique as ever. As a listener, I tend to prefer the sound of the words chosen rather than the actual meaning. I agree with another reviewer when they said that this album feels like the beginning of Fall. Not my jam, but 3 stars for the production quality and the 2 tracks I do enjoy.

Lot of memories around this album. It's never been one of my R.E.M. All-Timers; that would be a Sophie's Choice between Chronic Town/Murmur/Reckoning. I'd been a pretty avid R.E.M. fan for 5 or 6 years by this point, but their signature janglepop so prevalent in their earliest releases had evolved into something a little harder, rockier in some ways, ("Orange Crush", "Get Up") or trippier and psychedelic ("Turn You Inside-Out", "Remember California"), or college-rock radio-friendly ("Pop Song '89", and "Stand", which was pretty much unavoidable if you were listening to alt-rock radio at the time). I'm not saying bands can't change their sound. Failing to grow and explore new sounds leads to boring and predictable art. But I will say I wasn't enjoying the more recent releases as much as the band's earliest work. Personal preference. With that in mind, maybe it's not too surprising that my favorite couple of tracks were the gentler, mandolin-infused minor tracks "Hairshirt" and the album closer, so much of an afterthought that they didn't bother to name it anything other than "Untitled". One thing I remember about "Untitled"is the funky and weird kick-snare drum pattern that guitarist and non-drummer Peter Buck wrote. Apparently, actual drummer Bill Berry hated this song so much he refused to play drums on it, ceding it over to Buck for that song. Supposedly he said it was impossible for him to play it, not because it's hard, it's just so bad. LOL

I wonder if this might be better with more listens. Feels like two or three different albums mashed together into one whole, and while I like the more uptempo tracks I couldn’t get into the slower mandolin pieces. “Orange Crush” is definitely the highlight for me.

Surprised I liked this album as much as I did.

Solid record, but this is the second REM record that's popped up this week, and I'm a little burned out on them. The funny thing is that, on the last REM record I got, Document, I remember thinking that it was decent, but didn't quite reach the heights of Green, and even less so Out of Time and Automatic for the People. After listening to Green again—and it's been an easy 20 or 25 years since I've listened to either record in earnest—they feel pretty similar in terms of overall quality. Like Document, Green has some great songs, but also a handful of skippable tracks that weaken the whole effort overall. So, really, if Document is a 3.5/5 for me, so is Green. For me, REM is a great band, but I'm realizing that a greatest hits of everything that's not on Out of Time or Automatic for the People is just fine with me. 3.5/5

This was okay! I like rem. Nothing more nothing less.

It was pretty good, I liked it but it was significantly worse than the last one I got from REM.

7/10 Super consistent, but lacking real excitement. Every song is at least decent. Highlights: World Leader Pretend Stand Orange Crush Pop Song 89 I Remember California

Did not relisten. Pretty good but not a fave

Idk I either like REM or find them super annoying

Solid, a very R.E.M. record. Stand and Orange Crush are awesome.

not my vibe

Pretty good, not my type of music tho

Easy listening ale nie zostaje na dłużej

Deeply underrated band at this point. Not my favorite album but love Orange Crush.

Is it heresy that this like my... ninth or tenth favourite REM record?

Quite enjoyable - I didn't focus much today, but I think this is one I'd like to listen more closely to with lyrics, a couple of songs sounded interesting.

Didn't love it. Too many instruments? Over-produced. Phasers everywhere, canonical R.E.M. style. Couldn't tell if the lyrics were earnest or ironic. Cutesy. Not believable.

Le grand saut, le pactole, le passage chez les "majors". Voilà ce que représente "Green" dans la discographie de R.E.M. Car après cinq albums sur le label indépendant I.R.S. qui ont fait d’eux les chouchous des radios universitaires et de la critique éclairée, les quatre garçons d'Athens, Géorgie, signent chez la Warner. Un contrat juteux, des attentes énormes, et la question qui brûle toutes les lèvres en 1988 : vont-ils se vendre comme des putes ou réussir à garder leur âme ? Avouons-le, et vous commencez à me connaître, j’ai toujours eu un peu de mal avec R.E.M. C'est comme ça. Une sorte de barrière invisible, peut-être un poil trop propret, trop universitaire, trop… américain dans le sens le plus lisse du terme. Pourtant, la décence m'oblige à reconnaître leur importance capitale et, par moments, leur génie. Et "Green", c'est précisément l'album qui incarne toute l'ambivalence de ma relation avec ce groupe. Mon avis est simple et ne changera pas : c'est un disque foncièrement inégal. Un album schizophrène, le cul entre deux chaises, qui ne sait pas s'il doit enfiler un treillis pour partir au combat ou un pull en tricot pour aller cueillir des pâquerettes. C'est l'album de la transition, et comme toute transition, c'est parfois maladroit, un peu disgracieux, comme un adolescent qui mue. D'un côté, il y a la machine de guerre qui se met en place, celle qui accouchera plus tard de monstres de stades. Je pense évidemment à "Orange Crush", un putain de brûlot, un riff d'acier trempé, une production massive, des bruits d'hélicoptères, et un Stipe qui gueule enfin un peu, qui crache sa frustration sur fond de guerre du Vietnam et d'Agent Orange. Là, oui, mille fois oui. C'est puissant, c'est intelligent, c'est du rock qui a des couilles et un cerveau. Dans la même veine, "Pop Song 89" en ouverture est une mise en abîme maline et efficace du cirque médiatique qui les attend, et "World Leader Pretend" montre une maturité nouvelle dans l'écriture. Et puis, il y a "Stand". Ah, "Stand", le tube absolu, la chanson que tu entends une fois et qui te ronge le cerveau pour la semaine. C'est un bonbon pop acidulé et intentionnellement débile, une mélodie si conne qu'elle en devient géniale. C'est le R.E.M. qui a compris qu'un riff simple et un refrain à la mords-moi-le-nœud pouvaient t'ouvrir les portes du Top 40. On peut trouver ça con, mais il faut avouer que c'est diablement bien foutu. Pour ces trois ou quatre titres, l'album mérite sa place dans le grand livre. Mais voilà, il y a l'autre versant de la montagne, celui qui me fait grincer des dents et qui justifie ma note timide. C'est le R.E.M. qui se regarde le nombril en tricotant des arpèges à la mandoline. Putain de mandoline, elle est partout sur cet album, comme un virus. Sur "You Are the Everything" ou "The Wrong Child", on a l'impression d'entendre une version édulcorée et sans âme de leurs premiers disques. C'est mou, c'est gentillet, on sent le groupe qui se cherche, qui essaie de ne pas renier complètement son passé indie tout en draguant le grand public. Le problème, c'est qu'en faisant ça, ils perdent en cohérence ce qu'ils gagnent en ambition. C’est ça, le nœud du problème avec "Green". C'est un album de compromis, il est vert comme la couleur du dollar qu'ils viennent de toucher, mais il est aussi vert comme un fruit pas assez mûr. On sent le potentiel, on goûte le sucre des morceaux les plus évidents, mais on tombe aussi sur des passages âpres, qui manquent de saveur, de conviction. C'est un disque charnière, un passage obligé pour qu'ils puissent ensuite nous pondre des chefs-d'œuvre de mélancolie comme "Automatic for the People". Mais en tant que tel, écouté en 2025 avec le recul que m'offrent mes 55 balais et des milliers de disques dans les oreilles, "Green" me laisse sur ma faim. Il y a de l'or, c'est indéniable, mais il faut le trier au milieu de beaucoup de paille. Un 3 sur 5, ça peut sembler sévère pour un album qui contient des classiques pareils, mais c'est la note de la frustration. La frustration de ce qu'il aurait pu être s'il avait choisi son camp. C'est un bon album, mais pas un grand album, il est juste... entre les deux. Et être entre les deux, dans le rock, c'est rarement la meilleure place.

Un poco aburrido, canciones muy repetitivas. Me han gustado: stand (alegre y way) y Orange crush

not to bad to listen to, quite a few good songs like Stand, Orange Crush and Pop Son 89. The rest are nice to listen to but not memorable

This has great hits but something doesn’t click for me. It feels too soft, maybe it’s the vocal delivery that doesnt change tone? I’m not quite sure but it’s good music, just doesn’t do anything for me.

Orange Crush baby

Problemet til REM (og denne lista) er at de har laget Automatic For The People. Da "må" man ikke høre på noe annet.

There were some songs I really liked that were less emo “rock” but there were also emo rock songs - so netted out at 3.

Overrated band die een paar goede albums heeft, maar deze klinkt wel heel erg middle of the road rock. Paar wel echt catchy.

Alright. Top song is Stand. I wouldn't look for it again. Something about the REM vocals getting me kinda sleepy and uninterested 3

Oh REM experimental album just not a fan of that I like kind of a constant change for bands not a hard shift when they did their folk style on this album not a fan, but then the the more rock oriented is good

Not big R.E.M. fan. Not a bad album though.

good but too boppy

Surprisingly liked this one

Probably no. 4 or 5 of my bottom five REM albums.

Its REM, what am i supposed to say

I Don’t remember any of the songs names, but I didn't mind it.

Right on the edge of being a bit dull.

This is a nice piece of music though I expected to enjoy it a lot more than I did. I like REM, though haven't listened for years, and on relistening I'm afraid this album is a bit bland, dull, lacking energy.

eh

udemærket album. Jeg synes ikke det var sådan meeeeeega godt, men det er åbenbart en del af Kurt Kobains top 50 albums og inspirerede bla alt rock movement i 90'erne fordi det gjorde noget eksperimenterende. Jeg synes langt fra det er det bedste REM jeg har lyttet til.

Orange Crush is a huge track but I was underwhelmed by the rest of the album.

Lowk kinda boring. The thing that's gonna be prominent in most of these early ratings is me not being familiar with this type of music at all. Like it js feels a little boring to me. It's like the same thing over and over and over and it's just not really my cup of tea since I really like more energetic shit but it might help expand my taste?

not their best. not so many beautiful tracks, but good for listening all album

6/10

I think this is our third R.E.M. album. It's pretty much what you expect. If you like R.E.M. you will like this. My main takeaway is that "Orange Crush" is a really great song. The rest is ok too, I think "Stand" was my second favourite.

Ist ok. Haut einen nicht um gibt aber auch nicht direkt schlechtes dran 3/5

I find myself coming back to Green less than other REM albums. It's still okay.

More evidence of how REM turned puck toward alternative rock. Good high quality throughout.

nice, but probably not gonna go back to it

Aika perus R.E.M levy, oli parempi kuin odotin. R.E.M tuntuu omaan makuun hittejä lukuunottamatta aika tasapaksua, mutta oli kummiskin ihan hyvä kuunneltava. Parhaat: Orange Crush, You Are The Everything

Stand is a classic. Orange Crush is too. But otherwise most of the album is just OK. I did enjoy a few other songs on here. World Leader Pretend is good. There's also a lot of dull shit on the album, too. Like Hairshirt and I Remember California. The good is very good, but the bad is torturous.

One of the 3-est albums of all time from (probably) the 3-est band of all time

It was good, could hear how it influenced 90s alt, didn't get hooked though

it's just not my thing. i can appreciate some of it, but I just feel really meh overall.

Sounds very experimental although the pop type hits like Orange Crush and Stand, and even Pop Song 89 grab your attention. I feel most of the rest of the album would benefit from repeated listenings but I found myself gravitating to the tunes where the hooks were immediate and I didn't have to decode the often confusing lyrics. Nice album.

A little too sleepy

Even though R.E.M. were supposedly trying to reinvent themselves with this record, the music here doesn't break much new ground, as much of it has the same simple guitar strumming and picking patterns common to a lot of other R.E.M. songs. (Even when Peter Buck switches to mandolin, he's still in default mode.) Additionally, on a lot of the tracks Stipe's vocal melodies don't mesh well with the music ("Pop Song 89" and "Stand" excepted, where he keeps it more straightforward). The acoustic tracks are a mixed bag - "The Wrong Child" is overcooked, for example, but on "Hairshirt" all of the pieces come together perfectly.

Not bad

3/5

2.5

Solid ok.

Poppy. Melancholy. Low Energy. Mostly boring. Best song: Orange Crush

Iha menevä. Ei noussu selkeitä starakappaleita.

good stuff

Highlights: Pop Song 89, World Leader Pretend. In a nutshell: from college radio to adult radio. It feels different compared to Murmur and a little different to Document. Less jangly. It’s alright. Production is an improvement compared to Murmur. The riff from I Remember California reminds me of The Bends era Radiohead (ie My Iron Lung). What's interesting to note is Discogs labelled this album as “AOR” (ie Adult Orientated Rock). In terms of the book, this could be an example of an artist “aging out” of a market (industry concept, not mine). They started their career in the college radio rotation, now they’re playing on commercial radio. Sellout move? Maybe? Overall: 5/10

Fun album with a good mix of songs, not as many really great tracks as some of the subsequent albums. 3.5

Felt very familiar. Kept waiting for Losing my Religion. Orange crush is a banger. Good album

Pretty good overall. Better than the other R.E.M. album.

orange crush is kind of a banger

Found myself skipping every other song. Some were just so... whiny?

Was fine. 5/10

It's a good album, but not great. There are really nice instrumentations, but some songs feel bland. There is a big lyrical importance, which is nothing bad, but sometimes it seems like the lyrics carry all the interest of some of the songs. However, it has been a pleasant listening over all.

Very good

Un disco con 2 canciones excelentes y el resto de canciones que oscilan entre buenas y regulares, una constante en la carrera de esta banda.

Tipping my cap to Ben Wyatt on this listen. A good portion of this album was on Parks and Rec in some way or another. Aside from that, it was decent, easy listening. Nice to hear something other than losing my religion

Listened to this on plane. Fun listen, don’t think I’ll be coming back often though. Later stuff is better

Just like my review for "Murmur," this sure is a full album of R.E.M.! It feels more refined and I preferred it to "Murmur." Nothing really bad here but nothing special either

Pop Song is good and memorable. As is Orange Crush. I am reminded how much I hate “Stand” as it was used in “Get a Life”. This is coming from a long-time REM hater. They are the reason why we have bands like Coldplay.

This one was ok. I was teetering on disliking it but I think it was fine.

6/10… power pop / rock

Good listen.

I’ve never been a big R.E.M. fan, and can’t say I’ve ever listened to this before, but I enjoyed it more than I expected.

Major key, mid-tempo, pretentious, semi-folk-rock-balladish things making up some, mediocre Experimental Rock.

Not bad

Not my favorite R.E.M. record. This and the previous record, Document, started getting R.E.M. on the pop music stations and more heavy rotation on MTV. To me the sound became to polished and to overproduced. While there are still some amazing songs on this record, it just was not my style. I was a big fan and went to every show when they would come into town, but by this record, I was less interested in the band. This album was really less jangle pop as the previous albums and R.E.M. seem to lose their college radio station sound. That is fine, we all have to graduate from college someday. However, for R.E.M. their college sound was what drew me in and made them endearing.

Typisches R.E.M. Album, der Fairness halber muss ich aber auch sagen das es halt wie jedes Album der Band klingt, also irgendwie der gleiche Klang, Gesang, etc. Hat sich nicht abgehoben

Irgendjemand hat mal gesagt, dass der Sänger von R.E.M. sich anhört wie Donald Trump, seitdem kann ich das nicht mehr weghören. Ich mag R.E.M., aber das dritte Album nun, nur eins kam bisher auf 4 Sterne. Orange Crush hat positiv herausgestochen

Again, I just find REM so completely average.

Didn't like it as much as I expected to.

Whiny bloke this guy

You can tell they're a group of talented musicians, and that they have a great understanding of what they're doing musically, but it never really clicks for me. Part of it is probably that I don't love the lead singer's voice, and that's an important part, and helps set up an initial impression. I do like the experimentation that's done. It works well enough to the point that it isn't really all that noticeable, which is a good thing, I think. So, it blends in well with their other musical decisions. I just didn't really like it all that much. Favorite Song(s): I Remember California

Great album! Classic rock, and easy to enjoy. 7.6/10

Stand and Orange Crush are great. Everything else is pretty meh and blends together.

Some good songs— Stand and Orange Crush are xrt classics. I don’t think it’s a great album and probably doesn’t deserve a spot on the list. Kinda plain ya know?

I have a complicated relationship with R.E.M. Their hits HIT, but everything else kinda sounds the same. 3 stars here for a solid album that didn't blow me away or leave me feeling like I wasted my time.

Enjoyable, but like most REM, doesn't do anything special for my ears.

Not bad little bit boring

By the point Green came out, REM had hit the top of their career. They had gone from college radio favorites to mass market stars and filled arenas with the album, Document. Green, while a good album, sounded more like outtakes from Document. The leadoff, Pop Song 89, was jangly enough to be old REM and Orange Crush added a bit of social commentary to the REM mix. Plenty of others were MTV and radio hits (Get Up, Stand) but none of them are as good as It's End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine), or almost anything else on Document. After this came their biggest album ever, Out of Time, which was coincidentally one of their lowest artisticly. Lot's of teenage posers would soon loved REM but even they knew it wasn't quality. The albums that cam later, especially Automatic for the People, Monster, and Adventures in Hi-Fi were better albums but not as popular. So, whether you see Green as the beginning of the fall or fork in the road depends on whether you care about sales or art. If the latter, then Green was only the bump in the road.

4th album. Three stars it was okay. Wasn't great. Wasn't the worst? Wasn't their best? decent album middle of the road. Can see where other artists borrowed from the sound, especially the new pornographers in twin Cinema

A lot of improvements compared to the debut album and a lot more enjoyable. Still feels like a bit of a relic of its time.

Just good 3.3

Drones on a bit despite being 40mins. Important, sure, but eh

Decent. Lots of hits I’ve heard through the years

I will probably have Orange Crush stuck in my head for the next few days. Otherwise, the rest of the album was just sort of there for me. I didn't love it, I didn't hate it. It was ok.

I guess we're going to have all of REM's albums on this list? This, at least, has my favorite song from them, Orange Crush. I Remember California turned out to be good, too. This is a 3.

I remember saying on my last R.E.M. album review that it was peak-R.E.M. style, but that's also how I feel about this one, just an earlier version of it. When you think of R.E.M., this is it. 3.5

Never was much of an REM fan, but I found that this album kept things interesting and was 'rock' sounding compared to some the others.

In the end I didn't mind it, but it probably isn't something I'd add to my frequent rotation.

ka philipp album holt

I've never been a massive fan of R.E.M., I really like some of their individual hits, but I had never listened to one of their albums. This experience confirmed me and R.E.M. just don't click. A few highlights. but an overall dull album for me.

Still not a fan by any means, but overall not a bad listen

Too monotone lead vocal.

The second REM album I've gotten through this, though I can say I liked this one much more than the first (AFTP). There was some diversity to the music that kept it engaging, plus the songs themselves were enjoyable for the most part. There were still a few I didn't like; Stand stood out for that reason (see what I did there?). I didn't think it was great. But, as someone who doesn't really care for REM, I have to say this was pretty good. Overall: 3.1/5

Boring pop-rock.

bof

Enjoyed! Less good than the jack white album, but i can see its value even if its not as much me

Oh man. Green is the first REM record I heard. I remember stealing the tape from my brother's room. I still love it. It's somewhere in between their early more raw stuff and the later sophisticated art rock - Green has a bit more pure pop to it, which is actually what I like least about the REM in general, and Stand is the first song of their that I loved, and it's just so poppy that I sort of thought of this as one of their not so good albums for awhile... But relistening, it's actually better than I thought! I forgot about Orange Crush! Man that's a good song.

This album was how I got into REM back in 5th grade, so it should have a powerful nostalgia aura for me. But “Orange Crush” aside, I was surprised by how little I liked this album listening to it now. It seems like I can hear them moving further away from the early stuff i still like, and some songs verge on the full cringe effect of “Shiny Happy People.” Automatic for the People sort of redeems this arc for me, but I honestly struggled to get all the way through this album. Extra points for memories of 5th grade though.

3.5/5

No esta mal, sin mas

Me duele la cabeza

There's definitely an argument to be made for "Murmur" and "Automatic for the People" being on this list but this album not as much. Its a perfectly acceptable album but come on. Favorite track: You Are The Everything

3.5

Men den var nära att få två i vissa delar

REM are an interesting one for me, I think my favourite thing about them is how much I hear their influence in so many bands I love. But when it comes to REM themselves I find them incredibly hit or miss. Green is alright, the songs I like I do like but the ones I don't were a drag. Honestly this felt way longer than an hour by the end of it. Favourites - Pop Song 89, You Are The Everything, Stand

Two R.E.M. albums in a row! Well, let's get them out of the way I suppose... Bleh. Blablublarghalumebleylalagullumbelum. I don't dislike it. I don't like it very much either. 3 stars

Oh yeah just what i needed, an other mid R.E.M album

Ça va j’accepte

Fun

yeah ok easy listening

I absolutely LOVE REM, but as has always been the case when listening to this - which I know is highly acclaimed in their back catalogue - I am kind of ambivalent to it. I think instead of being a great realisation of where they would end up and the accomplishment of where they started it's just TOO transitional. It misses the soaring poppy art rock highs of their later work, and the austere jangle of their early records.

Ok I checked and the REM inclusions in this list are weird. Four albums which is a lot, but none of them are their biggest album, Out Of Time? Don’t get me wrong, REM is a great band and this is a great album. It’s a transition album. The band’s major label debut. Their “selling out” album. I think the only huge hit here is “Stand”, but I guess the overall sound is more polished and accessible (not that REM were terribly inaccessible at any point). It’s a beautiful album, great late eighties early nineties alt rock. Dunno, three stars based on my personal taste but I mean I’m not sure it should be here.

Although I really like REMs hit songs, I found this album to just be pretty decent. Other than Orange Crush (one of the first songs I learned on my guitar), not many other songs really stood out for me. The entire time I was listening to this album, I was thinking that The Smiths do everything better. That being said, healthy 3

OK REM. Not my favorite. Marks the shift into more mainstream rock/pop than indie. More produced. Less jangly.

Light rock, but still feels like 80s.

Classic late 80's album, everyone at the time knew it or owned it. "Pop Song 89" was a big hit with a great riff. "Stand", while annoying at times, is another hit that still gets a substantial amount of airplay today (51M listens). Rounding out the big 3 is "Orange Crush" which I heard on the radio yesterday (74M listens). Glue tracks like "Get Up", "Turn You Inside Out" round it out. I will add that "The Wrong Child" is horrible, a full on trainwreck of a song. I would not add this to my T1001 but I respect the impact it had at the time and the hits it produced that still get on the radio. 3.5 stars

Meh. A couple of good tunes.

Some bangers and some yawners. Never heard “ I Remember California” before. Really like that song

Good album. Orange Crush will always be one of my favorite songs. Never get tired of it.

it was mid

Kinda cool, very 80's kept on waiting for losing my religion though hahaha

Some decent songs ngl. Just not great

Despite thinking that -- at their core -- REM sound quite dweeby, I've just always loved them. Love Stipe's vocals, and their music just always hits an very enjoyable spot in my brain + ears. However, it gets a bit samey samey and I prefer their other outputs. It's a high 3 low 4 for me.

Pfff. I neither really like nor dislike R.E.M. It's too much middle of the road for me. And that's exactly what I think of this album. It's like pleasant background sound. You keep hoping that something will happen, whether it's a really hard rocking song or a beautiful ballad, but nope, it's like a gentle river bubbling along the countryside. I really don't understand ''You are the everything'; the instrumentation doesn't work and the singing of Michael Stipe is truly unbearable in that song. 4 stars is really too much honour. It's a bleak 7 our of 10 but that translates into 4 stars. But I just can't do that. So I ignore the methodology and adjust to 3 stars.

The first R.E.M. album I've listened to. I knew all of the best songs already, so it really wasn't anything too new. Still a solid album.

Never been a big fan of R.E.M. but this is a decent album.

Nice.

A catchy album by R.E.M. Some good reasonable hits. However I prefer their earlier works.

Buen álbum. Leí que experimentaron con crear canciones de rock en tonalidad mayor, probaron instruementaciones nuevas como la inclusión de la melódica. Me pareció interesante un momento en el que solo queda sonando un marimbol. La voz del cantante es muy representativa de la banda.

I can't love REM. I don't know why

Ei pöllömpi! Tykkään Documentista enemmän 3/5

Start is four stars, wind in hair you’re flying then a bit whiny for me back half.

Something about the voice and chord progression of this album did not really grab me

This was cool I guess, not bad not good

Yeah it was alright, I like the mandolin

There are good R.E.M albums out there and this isn’t one of them, wouldn’t say I hate it but it doesn’t have to be here Oh no ive said too much I haven’t said enough 😉

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjhsZ8ZMTzY Champagne comedy

ssookay I knew 2 songs from this album, ya know the two. Orange crush is good, I think this might be a good road trip album when you run out of your regular music. I've never heard it in its entirety before, it has a feel to it, not my feel but a 90s nostalgia that makes me think of Delia's catalog dresses and teen smoking.

Has a couple fire tracks!

I have a hard time clicking with REM. Always have and apparently always will. Each album will have a couple of stand out pop hits, one dark track ("I Remember California") and a bunch of filler. None of it is bad, it just never strikes me as consistent. 2.5 stars for a neutral offering.

It's okay. I guess

Not bad but not really my thing. Probably won't listen to the full thing again. Stand is obviously a stand out (heh) but my favourite track was Orange Crush.

Alternative Rock, 1988 -> 3

One step further into pop territory, but there’s still enough of those buzzing, shadowy guitars

Pretty good stuff. Probably their best album, but it still feels like ''U2 with a twist''.

++: Pop Song 89, Get Up, Stand, Turn You Inside-Out, Hairshirt +: The Wrong Child +-: You Are The Everything, World Leader Pretend, Orange Crush, I Remember California, Untitled 6,9/10

Pretty decent. I think they've made better albums though.

Niet per se fan van rem

I hear they hadn't yet found the very signature sound I remember from later, but I haven't heard a lot. The voice is very recognizable, though.

...should we talk abaaat tha govaaarnmeeent!!!??

Pretty good, nothing special really just pretty good guitar pop/alt rock, wasn’t a big fan of the last two songs or the more calmer songs, they were fine but felt a bit too long for what they were. Highlights were world leader pretend and orange crush. Also cool how this made Cobains top 50 albums i can see the influences I guess. Overall 5.5/10.

Very patchy.

A little bit mellow, nothing to complain about.

Not my favourite I don't really like the voice of the lead singer much

Middle point between the early years and losing my religion, they started to pick up alternate instruments (mandolin and accordion). There are good songs in here but as a whole it did not grab me like future REM albums.

it's giving they might be giants if they just played it safe